so it's been awhile since my last post, and my last post wasn't really an update, so i thought i'd do one.

things have been a bit stressful the past few weeks. i started training with kristen, and we hired a "temp" to cover my job. since they found a temp they really liked, it was decided that i would just stay in the other building and let them temp take over my job. at first, i was a bit weirded out by it, but it turned out to be a good thing. for the past month or so, i've been training with kristen and learning all i can about her job. as of this upcoming friday, she is gone for 3 months and i am so freaking nervous. i feel like i keep forgetting little things, and i almost feel incompetent. i hate that feeling. i am so good at my job and i want to learn new things, but i'm very worried i will lose everthing i've learned next week. and to make it more worrysome, next week i get to do the komatsu america check run. komatsu america is a big part of that job and once a month, i get to cut checks to them for each of our branches. the checks are in the millions of dollars, so it's a big deal to make sure i do it right. i think after i do the first check run by myself, i will feel a bit better about things. at least i sure hope so. i really don't want to be a disappointment. *crosses fingers*

home life has gotten a bit interesting lately. my friend brittania moved into my basement a couple weeks ago. the last time i had a friend stay with me, it was a bit conflicting because sometimes we got on each others nerves and sometimes arguments broke out. not necessarily with me, but it made me nervous in regards to brittania staying with me. i really don't want to ruin a good friendship. but i wanted to be a friend and she needed somewhere to go.

so far she's been with us a couple weeks and it's been a little hard to talk to her. i know she's in a rough period and i don't want to pry into her business or make her talk about things she doesn't want to talk about. so right now, i've pretty much been there if she wants to talk, but not asked a lot of questions. i hope she figures out what she needs to and finds some happiness. it doesn't seem like she's happy and i know from personal experience that that isn't a fun place to be.

tania has a little girl, who comes over a couple times during the week and every other weekend. that part has also been a little difficult for me, because it's hard to discipline someone else's kid. i think it's also hard for tania to do it, because she doesn't see her all the time and wants things to be fun. but sometimes she steps over boundaries and jase and i have had to get a little strict to get her to listen.

since tania has moved in, marshmallow has been peeing on our couches. at first we thought it was matsu so we tried to come up with ideas as to what would make him not use his litter box. we decided that maybe he was threatened or mad at us for tania moving in, or maybe that harmony was being a bit rambunctious and he was afraid of her. we testing our theory and locked matsu in the spare room during the times we weren't home and discovered it was actually marshmallow. we haven't figured out why he's doing it, but we lock him up now so our couches have been pee free. we've deep cleaned them to get the smell out of the cushions and the cleaner we got says it's got a pheromone that will keep him away, so hopefully that will work. the smell got so overpowering that it was hard to be in our front room and our big tv is in that room, so it was hard not having our comfy area.

in other news, we made it through the tightness of october and are doing well. we're still working on paying a few things off, but i'm optimistic that we'll continue to do fine and get better along the way. we survived halloween, killian's birthday and my mom's birthday and this month is much more relaxing. killian turned the big 4 at the end of october, so we had a party for him. we really had a great turn out and he got some great stuff. i love his birthdays, especially because he always gets new clothes. my mom's birthday was a couple days later, so we took her out to dinner. halloween followed and it was really fun! killian dressed up as superman and we got to take him trick or treating in our neighborhood. our neighbors are so awesome so it was a great night. one of our neighbors parked a van on his grass and put dummies underneath his tires. he had music playing, lights flashing and a video camera that showed everyone walking up his driveway. another house a street over had a bunch of stuffed zombies in their yard. the people who lived there dressed up as zombies too so it was so neat. they put a table in their driveway and put bloody body parts all over it. one house decided they were done passing out candy so they dumped the rest of their candy into killy's bag. it was almost half a big bowl, so he was so excited. we're still eating candy every night haha.

well it's time for bed, and i'm tired, so i'll update more later. goodnight.